Tactfully Quotes

#1. If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

Ann Landers

#2. The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Richard Wagner

#3. Close analysis of 'miracles' have never led to any proof for a supernatural explanation, and, in fact, many have proven to be cheap magic tricks, hallucinations or primitive misunderstandings of natural phenomena.

Armin Navabi

#4. other words, if you want to know the truth about the emperor's clothes, don't ask the tailors.

Judith Rich Harris

#5. If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

Bryan White

#6. What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

Terri Windling

#7. The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. Some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.

Mary Church Terrell

#9. Aristotle states that only one thing could justify monarchy, and that was if the virtue of the king and his family were greater than the virtue of the rest of the citizens put together. Tactfully,

Aristotle.

#10. Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.

R.J. Palacio

#11. I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

Terry Pratchett

#12. That meant when I wasn't happy about something, I spoke up, often directly and not always tactfully.

Randy Pausch

#13. This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

John Elder Robison

#14. Further, it would take one of those impossible coincidences that the Modern Liberal relies on so heavily to explain how it is that the two most religious nations in the Western World - the United States and Israel - are also arguably the world's two most scientifically and technologically advanced.

Evan Sayet

#15. I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

Lauren Mayberry

#16. Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

Harvey Pekar

#17. Mr S. got angry.
'Yes, I do have a son. He's a good-for-nothing. A dead loss.'
I couldn't ask which prison he was in, so I put it more tactfully: 'What is he doing?'
He sighed deeply: 'He's a professor of mathematics at London University.

George Mikes

#18. It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.

Michael Malone

#19. How do you tactfully spin the term "man-whore" to someone's sister?

Elle Lothlorien

#20. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me.

Corrie Ten Boom

#21. And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, "Good-bye.

Arthur C. Clarke

#22. When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.

Zelig Pliskin

#23. Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

Isaac Asimov

#24. I do not approach my life tactfully at all, i'm incredibly impulsive and I am definitely an intense weirdo. I love living and I love people. They trip me out and I want to know more about them all the time. That isn't something I can turn off and on.

Kristen Stewart

#25. It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#26. Nothing gets on other people's nerves at the office more than a whistler. And the sad part is, these whistlers don't know they're doing it. Someone should, tactfully, tell the whistler how much it disrupts the office environment.

Letitia Baldrige